Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures

Author:   Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:  

9781469636795


ISBN 10:   1469636794
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Chacon displays a wide knowledge of what's happening in contemporary Indigenous literature. . . . The story of this book looks both backward and forward, and ends where it began, questioning how literature and politics at once restrict Indigenous writing and allow it to grow.""--Transmotion Chacon's important work should find ample readership . . . as much for her methodological approach as for the invaluable insights she produces through it. As a critical intervention into the field of literature in general. . . . Her text is thus a major contribution to the growing corpus of work that challenges readers and critics to think beyond the book and from Indigenous ways of knowing when engaging these works.""--NAIS


Chacon displays a wide knowledge of what's happening in contemporary Indigenous literature. . . . The story of this book looks both backward and forward, and ends where it began, questioning how literature and politics at once restrict Indigenous writing and allow it to grow.--Transmotion


Chacon displays a wide knowledge of what's happening in contemporary Indigenous literature. . . . The story of this book looks both backward and forward, and ends where it began, questioning how literature and politics at once restrict Indigenous writing and allow it to grow.--Transmotion Chacon's important work should find ample readership . . . as much for her methodological approach as for the invaluable insights she produces through it. As a critical intervention into the field of literature in general. . . . Her text is thus a major contribution to the growing corpus of work that challenges readers and critics to think beyond the book and from Indigenous ways of knowing when engaging these works.--NAIS


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Gloria E. Chacon is assistant professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. Chacon's work has appeared in Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, and the United States.

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